Re: Native display of line numbers: visual line-counting

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Joseph Garvin <k04jg02@gmail.com>
> Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2017 14:03:27 -0500
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> For my own use of relative line numbers (speech recognition controlled programming) what's important is
> that the line numbering matches the number of times I'd press the up/down arrow keys or C-p/C-n to move
> my cursor to the labeled line. The whole reason for me to use the feature is to make it easier by eyeballing to
> predict where the cursor will land after I say "up 4", "down 7", etc. So I don't care at all about the numbering
> matching physical lines in the file.

What about lines where cursor cannot enter?  Are you saying you don't
want to count them?

Also, you seem to be saying that lines that span multiple screen lines
should be counted that many times.  If so, the numbers are not really
"line numbers" anymore, but something else.  Moreover, these lines
cannot be communicated to anyone else, as their window geometry could
be different.